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Sep. 16, 2013

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Indiana's hospitals and outpatient medical centers saw 100 reportable errors in 2012, the same number as the previous year, according to an annual report from the Indiana State Department of Health.

Bedsores continued to lead the list of errors that experts think could be prevented, though there were fewer last year than in the past. In six of the seven years since the Department of Health started compiling the report, bedsores have led the list.

Leaving a foreign object in a patient after surgery came next, with 19 such incidents reported, or 1 event per 89,209 surgeries. On 15 occasions, ...